The Avery Review seeks out reviews and critical essays on books, buildings, and other architectural media, broadly defined. Our essays are typically 3,000-4,500 words in length. We ask that all essays have some object of review at their core (whether book, building, project, or idea), and that authors engage with the work of others rather than addressing their own design or scholarly work. We like stylish, concise, and accessible writing, and we invite our contributors to experiment with tone and format as suits their topic. Most of all, we hope to publish pieces that are consequential and earnestly felt. We also welcome responses to the essays that have already been published.
We pay our authors $400 for all published essays. The Avery Review is committed to publishing a diverse range of voices, especially those contributing to the collective rewriting of a discipline that has long kept difference in its margins, to the benefit of dominant voices who have too long held the center. We welcome authors who illuminate architecture's blind spots, who oppose its many complicities, who resist its production of norms and its participation in spatial violence—and who champion a more open, more equal built environment.
Submissions should use the Chicago Manual of Style’s note and shortened note footnote formatting, with complete citation information. Images should be submitted separately from your Word file as jpegs. Whether a pitch for a review or a long-form think piece, we welcome your thoughts—with the simple request that they critically engage the work of someone else. Please send all submissions, queries, and comments to editors@averyreview.com.
We’re eager to hear what our readers are thinking about, and in the spirit of spurring public conversation, here are a few things (in no particular order) that have been on the editors’ minds (and which we’d enjoy receiving pieces about):
Please note that the Avery Review selects pieces based upon editorial review and does not charge for article processing or submission. While we are happy to receive abstracts or proposals, all editorial decisions are made on the basis of completed texts, or detailed conversations with authors on the development of an essay. It is typical for our essays to go through several rounds of editing. Many thanks for being involved with the Avery Review!